A more careful look at the attachment reveals that it contains some lightly obfuscated Javascript code. When rendered in a browser, the code instructs the browser to load a page on a Web site called DreamLifeAsia, which is (suprisingly, considering the name) not a pornography site. That page contains instructions for the browser to load a one-pixel-square iframe from a page on the raceobject.ru Web site.23:62:568: https://blog-en.webroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/20100720_html_raceobject_exploit_hilight. the stripped down version of your HTML email. As the word ‘plain’ implies, a plain text email contains only text—no images, stylized fonts, or hyperlinks.

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is a way to code a document (made out of ASCII text) that lets an HTML reader (such as a web browser) know how to render certain types of information.

HTML emails have everything plain text emails don’t have: color, style, images, and sometimes multimedia.

You may be an experienced digital marketer and yet not be fully versed in the technical underpinnings of email. For this reason, we’ll elaborate a bit about the main technical differences between HTML vs. plain text emails here.